Dr. Günther Wuchterl

Dr. Günther Wuchterl is the chairperson of the Kuffner Observatory, Vienna and co-chairperson of the International Dark-Sky Association - Austria Chapter. In 2013 he received the IDA-Galileo Award for "outstanding contributions combatting light pollution in Europe including his work on the citizen science project “How Many Stars?” He has served as Astronomer at the Universities Heidelberg, Vienna, Jena, the University of California Santa Barbara and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. He is Co-Investigator of the CoRoT-mission for extrasolar planets.